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Holly: A Drawing Editor for Designing Stencils
July/August 2010 (vol. 30 no. 4)
pp. 8-14
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Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, "Holly: A Drawing Editor for Designing Stencils," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 8-14, July/August, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2010.74,
author = {Yuki Igarashi and Takeo Igarashi},
title = {Holly: A Drawing Editor for Designing Stencils},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {30},
number = {4},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2010},
pages = {8-14},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2010.74},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Yuki Igarashi, University of Tsukuba
Takeo Igarashi, University of Tokyo
Designing a stencil is difficult because of the requirement that all positive regions are connected. In this proposed method for generating expressive stencils, you simply use standard drawing operations, and the system automatically generates the appropriate stencil satisfying that constraint. You obtain the physical stencil by sending the result to a cutting plotter. Finally, you use the stencil to decorate the target object (for example, fabric or a postcard). In a workshop for novices, even children could design their own stencils using this system. The Web extra is a video that shows how the Holly system lets users easily design valid stencils from scratch.

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Index Terms:
automatic stencil creation, nonphotorealistic rendering, craft, computer graphics, graphics and multimedia, stencils
Citation:
Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, "Holly: A Drawing Editor for Designing Stencils," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 8-14, July-Aug. 2010, doi:10.1109/MCG.2010.74
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